Orgs worth knowing

campus

• Hillel International

  The largest Jewish campus organization in the world, the default landing spot for Jewish student life.

• Chabad on Campus

  Chabad houses run by young rabbis and their families near hundreds of campuses, open door, no membership required.

community

• JCC Association of North America

  The umbrella body behind local JCCs, the gyms-and-preschools-and-everything-else version of Jewish community life.

• Jewish Federations of North America

  The fundraising and coordinating backbone behind local Jewish community services in over 350 communities.

• Moishe House

  Peer-led Jewish community in shared houses, aimed at people in their twenties who've aged out of Hillel.

• OneTable

  Helps people in their twenties and thirties host or attend a Shabbat dinner, no synagogue membership needed.

• Repair the World

  Puts Jewish young adults into real volunteer service alongside the communities they're serving.

• Hadassah

  The Women's Zionist Organization of America, still running major hospitals in Jerusalem and advocacy back home.

culture

• Sefaria

  A free, searchable library of Jewish texts, Torah through Talmud, with translations, built to actually be used.

• PJ Library

  Mails free Jewish children's books to families every month, no strings, funded by the Harold Grinspoon Foundation.

israel

• Birthright Israel

  The free ten day trip to Israel for young Jewish adults that's introduced a generation to the country firsthand.

• Honeymoon Israel

  Sends couples, including interfaith and LGBTQ couples, on a subsidized trip to Israel with peers from their own city.

legal

• American Jewish Committee (AJC)

  Advocacy and diplomacy focused on Jewish security and Israel, one of the oldest Jewish advocacy groups in the US.

• Anti-Defamation League (ADL)

  Tracks antisemitic incidents and hate groups, and is also the group people argue about most inside the Jewish world.

relief

• JDC (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee)

  The global Jewish relief agency, working in disaster zones and vulnerable Jewish communities worldwide.

• HIAS

  Started resettling Jewish refugees over a century ago, now resettles refugees of any background on the same Jewish values.